MEMS and Microfluidics in Healthcare

Koushik Guha is awarded Distinguished Faculty Award 2021 by NIT Silchar for his outstanding performance in teaching and research. Recently, he has been awarded IETE R S Khandpur award 2022 for his achievements and outstanding contribution at national and international level in the field of ‘Medical Instrumentation’ covering education, research, design, development, and production. Dr. Guha is also awarded Institute of Smart Structures and Systems Young Scientist award (ISSS, IISc Bangalore) 2021 for his contribution in MEMS/NEMS sensors and actuators.  He is Optimistic Researcher and Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India.  He is now Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Former Assoc. Dean of Students Welfare in NIT Silchar. Dr. Guha is awarded five international patents and one national patent. He has been nominated Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and Institute of Scholars (InSc) Govt. of India. He has been Active and Regular Reviewer of (SCI/SCIE journals) and various IEEE hosted/sponsored conferences.Gorachand Dutta, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor with the School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. in Biosensor and Electrochemistry from Pusan National University, South Korea, Postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, USA, and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University of Bath, UK. He has expertise on electrochemical biosensors.  Arindam Biswas received M.Tech. degree in Radio Physics and Electronics from University of Calcutta, India, in 2010 and Ph.D. from NIT Durgapur in 2013. He has worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at Pusan National University, South Korea. Dr. Biswas has received DST-JSPS Invitation Fellow at RIE, Japan,DST-ASEAN Invitation Fellow at Duy Tan University, Vietnam and Taylors University, Malaysia, and Visiting Fellow to Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University Singapore.  He has worked as Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Visiting) at Research Institute of Electronics, Shizouka University, Japan. He has been selected for IE (I) Young Engineer Award: 2019-20; KNU Best Researcher Award (Engineering and Technology): 2021; and KNU Best Faculty Award-2022 (Faculty of Science and Technology). Presently, Dr. Biswas is working as Associate Professor in School of Mines and Metallurgy at Kazi Nazrul University, WB, India, where he has been actively engaged in teaching, research, and administration. He has 53 technical papers in different journals and 55 conference proceedings and 8 authored books, 18 edited volumes, and 10 chapters with international repute. Dr. Biswas has produced six Ph.D. students till date. His research interest is in carrier transport in low-dimensional system and electronic device, nonlinear optical communication, THz semiconductor source, IoT, and optimization.  K Srinivasa Rao was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. He received Master’s & Ph.D. degree from Central University. He is presently working as Professor and Head of Microelectronics Research Group, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering in Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (Deemed to be University), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. His current research areas are MEMS-based Reconfigurable Antenna’s actuators, Bio-MEMS, RF MEMS Switches, RF MEMS Filters, MOSFET, FinFETs, etc. He received Young Scientist Award from Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, in 2011. He also received UGC Major Research Project in 2012. He received early career research Award from SERB, Government of India, in 2016. Presently, he is working on MEMS project worth of 40 Lakhs funded by SERB, Governmentof India. He has published more than 140+ international research publications and presented more than 55 conference technical papers around the world. He is Member of IETE, ISTE, and IEEE.

• N/MEMS Biosensors: An Introduction.- Lab-on-a-Chip Technology in Health Care.- A Review on Recent Trends in the Segregation of Red Blood Cells Using Microfluidic Devices.- A Road Map to Paper-based Microfluidics towards affordable disease detection.- Critical Review and Exploration on Micro pumps for Microfluidic Delivery.- Fabrication Techniques & Materials for Bio-MEMS.-In-silico analysis of expandable radiofrequency electrode for ablation of hepatic tumors.- Lab-on-Chip Electrochemical Biosensor for Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Transdermal Injection with Microneedle Devices in Healthcare Sector: Materials, Challenging Fabrication Methodologies and its Limitations.- An economical and efficient method for the fabrication of spiral micromixer.- Damping Estimation and Analysis for High Performance Inertial MEMS for Early Detection of Neurological disorders during Pregnancy.- Affinity biosensing: Modeling of Adsorption Kinetics and Fluctuation Dynamics.